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RISC-V Summit Preview: Pascal or Linux?
Coming up in December, in the same week as IEDM, is the RISC-V Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center. For a basic introduction to RISC-V see my post RISC-V—Instruction Sets Want to Be Free. It is...
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When Reliability Brings You Lemons
How long do you expect your electronics to last? Depends on the device, I expect. A mobile phone may last a few years; a laptop may last five years or so, a television may last maybe ten years or more....
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Kaufman Award Dinner: The Tom Williams Story
Wednesday night it was the annual Kaufman Award Dinner to honor this year's recipient, Tom Williams. To learn more about the history of the award, read my post Who Was Phil Kaufman? I also talked to...
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Sunday Brunch Video for 11th November 2018
https://youtu.be/deyk_MEkjZg Made at Cadence Diwali Celebration (camera Sean ) Monday: China Update Tuesday: Automotive Summit: Driving an Industry with Electronics Wednesday: IEDM Preview: 3nm and...
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Portable Stimulus and Correct Designs
The title of this post seems pretty generic, after all who wouldn't want correct designs. But actually Correct Designs is the name of a company. They have been working closely with Cadence on PSS, the...
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Bagels and Brains: SEMI's Artificial Intelligence Breakfast
A couple of weeks ago the Silicon Valley chapter of SEMI held a breakfast meeting Artificial Intelligence at the Edge . There were 5 presentations: Kevin Krewell of TIRIAS Research: There Is No...
View ArticleVirtuoso: 新序曲-Design Planner 工具简介
新版的Virtuoso平台（*ICADVM18.1）提供了突破性的分析功能和创新的仿真驱动版图设计，实现了更强大，更高效的设计，支持最先进的工艺技术。基于该解决方案，我们能够通过最先进的方法来显著提高生产力，并且提供业内最全面的解决方案，能实现芯片，封装，模块和电路板间相互操作的流程。...
View ArticleTensilica HiFi 5 DSP Enabling Machines for Voice UI
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Sachin Ghanekar, Design Engineering Group director at Cadence, talks about the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi 5 DSP, and how it works to fill the needs of both front-end...
View ArticleSize (of the Kilogram) Matters
How do you know how many coffee beans you have purchased (besides counting them out, that is)? Coffee is generally measured by weight (not by volume). In the U.S., this may be in pounds, but for the...
View ArticleHow to Find Primes
Primes are really important in encryption. In fact, the foundation of internet security depends on a couple of things that seem somewhat impossible could both be true at once: It is easy to decide...
View ArticleMechanical, Thermal, EMI, SI, PI: PCB Design Needs Them All
Back in the days when Roger Moore was James Bond, there were various criticisms of his acting style (or lack of it): I am so surprised, I shall raise my left eyebrow. I am so amused, I shall raise my...
View ArticleVirtuoso: 新序曲-新视角下的拥塞分析
新版的Virtuoso平台（*ICADVM18.1）提供了突破性的分析功能和创新的仿真驱动版图设计，实现了更强大，更高效的设计，并且支持了最先进的工艺技术。基于该解决方案，我们能够通过最先进的方法来显著提高生产力，并且提供业内最全面的解决方案，实现芯片，封装，模块和电路板间相互操作的流程。 对于每个新的工艺节点来说，布线变得更具挑战，...
View ArticleVirtuoso: The Next Overture – Concurrent Layout – a New Methodology for Team...
The new release of the Virtuoso platform (ICADVM18.1) offers groundbreaking analysis capabilities and an innovational new simulation-driven layout for more robust and efficient design implementation as...
View ArticleThe Linley Halloween Processor Conference
Halloween saw the latest Linley Fall Processor Conference. It is only a few years ago that processors were fairly boring. Intel and Arm would regularly come out with new designs, and some specialized...
View ArticleYoga is Passé, the Future Is CurvyCore
Despite CurvyCore sounding like something that you might take classes in at your local gym, it is actually new technology that allows computing and representing non-Manhattan shapes in Virtuoso. The...
View ArticleERI: OpenROAD
If I had to summarize DARPA's Electronic Resurgence Initiative in one phrase, it would be "getting the cost of design down." As I've said several times this week, the US Department of Defense (DoD)...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 4th November 2018
https://youtu.be/HCJG-tABZWE Made at Linley Fall Processor Conference (camera Sean ) Monday: Formal Signoff with JasperGold Tuesday: Texas Instruments on Automotive Reliability Wednesday: "Alexa, What...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 18th November 2018
https://youtu.be/G12sQpq0JSI Made on Maui (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Portable Stimulus and Correct Designs Tuesday: Bagels and Brains: SEMI's Artificial Intelligence Breakfast Wednesday: How to Find...
View ArticleInside Google's TPU
At the Linley Fall Processor Conference recently, the keynote on the second day was by Cliff Young of Google titled Codesign in Google TPUs: Inference, Training, Performance, and Scalability . The TPU...
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